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The woman involved in the massacre of 14 people at a community centre in the California town of San Bernadino on Wednesday is believed to be of Pakistani origin. Tafsheen Malik, 27, was born and raised in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia before moving to the United States to join US-born …

These are the two Indian engineers who were part of a team that won a milestone case against Apple Inc in the US this week. A US jury found that chips powering coveted Apple mobile devices infringe on technology patented by Wisconsin University researchers. Gurinder Sohi and Terani Vijaykumar, along …

An Indian-origin couple has donated $100 million (£60 million) to New York University (NYU) in one of the largest philanthropic gifts to the world-renowned institution. The funds will go towards NYU’s engineering school which will be re-named after Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon as the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Mr …

This week British-Pakistani Labour MP Sadiq Khan won his party’s nomination to contest in next year’s London Mayoral election. Now a second Pakistani-origin politician is in the running to become mayor of another great European capital. Pakistan-born environmental campaigner Shoaib Sultan could become Oslo’s next mayor after his party became …

A Sri Lankan-origin Conservative Party candidate has expressed his “shock” after his UKIP opponent was filmed threatening to shoot him. Ranil Jawayardena, the Conservative candidate for North East Hampshire, was the subject of a racist rant by UKIP’s Robert Blay who was filmed by the Daily Mirror making the remarks …

A basketball player whose parents migrated from the Punjab to Canada and who stands taller than even the legendary Shaquille O’ Neal, is set to become the first man of Indian origin to play in America’s National Basketball Association. Sim Bhullar, who stands at a remarkable 7’ 5”, has just …

An Indian-origin Tory election candidate has been suspended by the Conservatives for allegedly trying to organize a far-right march against plans to build a mosque in his constituency in the West Midlands. The Mail on Sunday reports that Afzal Amin, a former British Army captain, was filmed telling members of …

An Indian-origin British expat has been charged with murder for beating a suspected German paedophile to death in Spain after he caught the man filming his young daughter on an iPad. The incident reportedly occurred at a restaurant in Sotogrande, an exclusive resort in southern Spain. Reports say that Devinder …

An Indian-origin woman in Indiana has been found guilty of feticide and child neglect after she was convicted of using abortion drugs to terminate her pregnancy. Purvi Patel, 33, is facing up to 70 years in prison for both charges under Indiana’s strict feticide and child neglect. Prosecutors said that …

A British Pakistani man and his three grown-up sons have all been stripped of their British citizenship after being accused of being Islamist extremists. Home Secretary Theresa May is believed to have taken away British citizenship from the unidentified 51-year-old and his sons in 2012. News about the case was …